Long Island Iced Latina: Actress/Comedian Marga Gomez's New One-Woman Show
The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage Theater (1062 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94110)
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The last date listed for Long Island Iced Latina was Saturday January 17, 2009 / 8:00pm.
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The Marsh is proud to present six workshop performances of Drama Desk nominee and GLAAD Award-winning solo performer Marga Gomez’s Long Island Iced Latina, her new work-in-progress.
In Long Island Iced Latina, Gomez pours a long tall drink of cultural confusion, chronic virginity and mother-daughter instability. Mixing theatrical physicality and stand-up comedy candor, she begins by recounting a hilariously dark memoir of the only brown girl in a white high school, then she switches gears to deliver an intoxicating manifesto for Latinos who can’t speak Spanish, suck at Salsa, and suffer from Blonditis. “We’re everywhere.” Gomez claims “And we vote!”
An earlier workshop production of Long Island Iced Latina sold out at Joe’s Pub in New York in 2008. It has also been presented at the Waldron Arts Center in Bloomington, Indiana and here at The Marsh last May. This is the final workshop production of Long Island Iced Latina before it premieres at the 2009 South Beach Comedy Festival in conjunction with Miami Light Project. Gomez’s first solo play Memory Tricks premiered at the Marsh in 1991 and she has been a close friend of The Marsh ever since.
Recently named ‘2008 Best Comedian’ in the SF Bay Guardian Readers Poll, Gomez is one of America’s first openly gay comedians with appearances on LOGO network, Comedy Central and PBS. In addition to the Drama Desk nomination and GLAAD Award, she has also received The Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Actress.
Gomez is the writer and performer of seven previous solo plays: Los Big Names, A Line Around The Block, Memory Tricks, Marga Gomez is Pretty, Witty & Gay, Jaywalker, The Twelve Days of Cochina and Marga Gomez's Intimate Details. They have been produced nationally and internationally, including at New York’s Public Theater, 47th Street Theater, Performance Space 122, Dixon Place and La Mama ETC. Gomez has worked with director David Schweizer on four of the plays.
Acting credits include The Vagina Monologues at the Westside Theater, HBO's Tracey Takes On..., Guiding Light, Batman Forever, Sphere and indie favorites Rosa Negra and The D Word. Gomez also tours nationally as one of the first openly gay comedians in America and is one of four gay comedians profiled in the 2003 documentary Laughing Matters (Here Network.) She has appeared on HBO's Comic Relief, Showtime's Latino Laugh Festival, Comedy Central's Out There and the PBS series In the Life. Selections from her work have been published in several anthologies including Extreme Exposure, Out, Loud & Laughing, Contemporary Plays by American Women of Color, Out of Character and When I Knew. She was one of eight playwrights to be commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum's Latino Theater Initiative as part of the 2004 Amor Eterno project.